I am pleased to inform this community that, as part of a campaign to increase awareness of SCLS among Emergency Room and Intensive Care doctors, and to educate particularly these front-line doctors about how to diagnose and treat someone experiencing an episode of SCLS, a just-released medical reference book includes the first-ever published guidelines on the basics, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care of patients with SCLS.
(In case you were wondering how this came about, in recent years I have worked with several doctors who have treated SCLS patients to develop a set of agreed guidelines -- a so-called Protocol. Well, a year-and-a-half ago I got the lead author of the guidelines, Dr. Omar Rahman, to submit them for publication in an upcoming reference volume that was soliciting short contributions from dozens of ICU doctors for more than 200 entries covering all aspects of adult critical care. As you can imagine, the book's medical editor had never even heard of SCLS, but he agreed to include the entry anyway!)
The book is titled "The 5-Minute ICU Consult" -- it's part of a well-known series of medical books such as "The 5-Minute Clinical Consult" and "The 5-Minute Sports Medicine Consult" etc. published by Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins -- and the entry on SCLS appears on pages 256-257 of the 2012 edition of the aforementioned "The 5-Minute ICU Consult."
Any member of this community that would like to have an electronic copy of those two pages plus the book cover (for identification purposes) is welcome to write to me at _aporzeca@american.edu_ and I will send it to you -- free of charge, of course.
I venture to say that, beyond the valuable information that is posted in the Disorder Details and Disorder Resources sections of this website, these 2 pages are probably THE ones that all SCLS patients should print out and carry with them wherever they go -- the 2 pages they should show to the ambulance attendant and/or Emergency Room receptionist, triage nurse or doctor they encounter whenever they suspect that they are having an episode of SCLS and are seeking help.